Future of Russia in 2030

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after discussion with Elsa based on the original system poster, she finally get a new nice system diagram draft in the below section. Hope it can catch most of our original ideas.


INTRODUCTION

By asking questions about present day Russia and looking at trends, we aim to develop 4 plausible but unconventional scenarios about Russia's future in 2030.

GROUP MEMBERS

Ankit Anand
Chih-Hou Chen
Andrei Grigorian
Mark Pospisilik
Elsa Sheng

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

  1. Economic Questions
  2. Political Questions
  3. Policy
  4. Technological Questions
  5. Foreign Investment Questions
  6. Racism in Russia
  7. Demographics
  8. Miscellaneous

LINKS

1. Putin's Russia: past imperfect, future uncertain, Dale Roy Herspring http://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=4Y9_fYt9iagC&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=Russia+future&ots=nvGBWNl5X6&sig=sK9ZU5Q7eIwYv1JTDj3GXtIfeSc#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Russia: continuity and change By Gerald Hinteregger, Hans-Georg Heinrich, Hans-Georg Heinrich (Univ.-Doz. Dr.) http://books.google.nl/books?id=1YGJDLpLYWEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Russia+future&lr=&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q=Russia%20future&f=false

2. http://www.plausiblefutures.com/ Just type Russia in as a keyword and it will give any related news

3. Chances for a Reset in Russian Politics "Russia in Global Affairs". № 2, April - June 2009 By Dmitry Badovsky http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/numbers/27/1274.html

4. How Russia could be more productive, McKinsey Quarterly http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Economic_Studies/Country_Reports/How_Russia_could_be_more_productive_2435

5. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) http://www.iiasa.ac.at/

6. Gapminder http://www.gapminder.org/

REFERENCE

1.http://eng.globalaffairs.ru/ A journal on foreign affairs and international relations

2.http://www.weforum.org/pdf/GCR09/GCR20092010fullreport.pdf 2009-2010 the Global Competitive Report, take a look at pg.210-pg211

3.https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rs.html

DRIVING FORCES

Political Driving Forces

  1. Break down in Russo-Chinese relations
  2. Increasing instability in the Caucasus
  3. Improved the relation with the US

Societal Driving Forces

  1. Decline of the Russian population

Environmental Driving Forces

  1. Enforcement of Environmental policy in Russia
  2. Increasing need for clean energy

Economic Driving Forces

  1. Increasing value of Nature Resource (Oil, Natural Gas) in Russia
  2. The Rise of BRIC Economies
  3. Poor Business Climate
  4. The post-Kyoto Economy of Russia

Technological Driving Forces

  1. The Increasing Influence of the Internet
  2. Russia's Investment in Military Technology

DIAGRAMS

System Diagram.jpg

INTERVIEWS

  1. Interview 1 : Senior Executive of large company operating in Russia

SCENARIOS

  1. 1. Axis: Greater Freedom vs Greater Authority and State Control
  2. 2. Black Gold's Curse
  3. 3.chihhou rough ideas of Russia scenarios, prosperity and restructing
  4. 4. Scenario 4

Russia scenarios web reference